Railway-tie and rail-fastening device.



,G. 0LARK..- RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL FASTENING DEVICE APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 6, 1913.

1,063,775, Pate ted-Jung 3, 1913.

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- Emma wwweoow r G 'J. CLARK (RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL FASTENING DEVICE APPLICATION FILED 1 EB.6,"l9 1 3.

- Patented June's, 1913,

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outrun STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. CLARK OF IDEFIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'iliO GEORGE A.-

' RIGRISH, 0E DEFIANCE, OHIO. A

RAILWAY-TIE AND RAIL-FASTENING- DEF'IGE.

{lb (/77 zc/mm ii may concern Be it known that I Gannon J. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at be Iiance, in the'county of Defiance and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties and Rail-Fastening Devices; and 1 do declare the following to a fall, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in'the art to which it up )t'l'illlllta' to makezand use the same.

his invention relates to improvementsin railway ties and particularly to reinforced concrete'ties and rail fastening devices.

()nc object of the invention-is to provide a concrete railway tie having an improved arrangement of reinforcing members and a metal casing whereby a strong, rigid structure is provided for firmly supporting the ails engaged therewith.

Another object is to provide a tie having an improved construction and arrangement of rail fastening devices by means of Whichthc railway rails are secured to the tie'an'd held against spreading or upsetting.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, and the combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described and claimed. a In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of two railway rails secured to my improved ties; Fig. 2 is a top pla'nview of one of the ties and portions of the rails secured thereto; Fig. 3 is'a central longitudinal section there- I of; Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section taken on the line -4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a similar view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3; Fig. (3 is an endviewofoneof the ties and a portion of a rail secured thereto; Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of the inner concrcte portion of the tie andthe rail supporting members thereof; 'Fig. -8 is a similar view of.the outer or casing member of the tie; Fig. 9 is a detail perspective view of one of the rail fastening mm'nbers of the tie. By referring to the noon npanying drawings, it will be seen that my iinn'oved tie comprises an innerconcrete mem )61 .1 having arranged through or embedded therein longitudinally disposed metal reinforcing rods 2 which are so distributed through the concrete member alto rigidly support and reinforce the letterr lathe upper side of Specification of Ietters I atent. Application filed February 6, 1913. Serial No. 746,605.

Patented June 3, 913.

the inrnbr 1 is formed a central longitudinally disposed groove orchannel 3 the purpose of which will be hereinafter described.

and beneath the portions, of the tie with which the rails are engaged are formed i'Q-' cesses 5 in which are arranged cusliioning blocks 6 formed of rubber or other resilient or elastic material, said blocks projecting a slightdistance. above the upper surfaces of the strips 4 as shown. I

Arranged over and engaged with the concrete inner member of the tie is an outer member or casin 7 which is constructed of metal and may e cast or formed in any suitable manner and is here shown as being constructed from a single piece of sheet metal out 'and'bent into shape and having its ends provided with attaching flanges 8 which are engaged with and-riveted-to the sides adjacent to the ends thereof as clearly .shown in Fig. 8 of the drawings. The casing when thus constructed is adapted to-be placed overthe concrete inner member 1 of the tie and to rest on the cushioning blocks '6 in the strips't onth-e upper surface of said concrete member of the tie.

Secured to the upper side of the casing or'outer member 7. of the tie by rivets or bolts or other suitable fastening devices are rail fastening clips 9 one of which is disposed in position to engage the outer side or outer baseflange of one of the rails while the other is disposed in position to engage the inner side or base flange of the other rail. In the upper side of the casing or outer member 7 and spaced :1 suitable distance from the clips 9 are slots 10 which are disposed in positions adjacent to the opposite sides 0f.the rai s from that with which the clips 9 are engaged and which are provided to receive hook shaped rail fasteir ing lugs ll formed on the uppercdge of a 1'ai'l fastening, bar 12 which is disposed in the glloove 3. of the inner member of the tie and between the inner edges ofthe strips 4 as shown. The bar 12 has one end reduced and threadedand engaged with a slot- 13 in the adjacent end of the casing or outer memher 7 of the tie and with said threaded proend of the bar is engaged clamping nuts which are adapted to be screwedup on the end of the bar and into engagement With,a .,washe1-' 14 arranged between the nuts arid the adjacent end of the tie thereby drawing the hook shaped lugs into open ative engagement with'the flanges, on the opposite sides ofthe rails from that with which .the clips 9 are engaged. In thus I fastened to the ties. The inner sides of theflange engaging' portionsof the lugs 11 are 1 5 drawing the lugs-11 in engagement with the flanges of the rails it will be seen that the latter will be tightly clamped between said lugs and the clips and will thus be securely beveled or inclined to correspond with the inclination of the upper side of the rail flanges, so that when the lugs are drawn up I into engagement with the flanges of the rails, the engagement of the inclined surfaces of the lugs andfianges will draw the rails downwardly into tight engagement the'clips of ever other tie engage the flanges with the outer member of the tie and will thus prevent the rails spreading.

In arranging the ties each alternate'tieis reversed or extends in" the opposite direction from the next adjoining he as clearly indicateddn Fig. 1 of the drawings, so that on oneside of e rails, whilexthe flanges on the 'same sides of the rails are engaged by the lugs (ifs-the intermediate ties. By ayranging the fastening devices in this manner braced and fastened to the ties.

iBy'constructmg the fastening devices as it wi ll be seen that the rails are rigidly herein shown and described. it willbe seen necessar that in order'to release the rails it is simply to unscrew the nuts 15from the threade .end of the rail fastening bars whereupon the bars may be pushed back into the'casings or outer members of the ties and the lugs 11 thereon thus moved back in the slots10 and disengaged from the flanges of-the rails after which the bar 12 and lugs may be permittedto drop in the groove 3 of the inner member of the tie, thus permitting 4 and removed from the ties. 5 0

the rails ,to be disengaged from the clips 9 When the bar 12 and lugs are thus lowered in the groove 3, said bar and lug may be drawn outwardly through the slot 13 in the end of the casing or outerjmember 7 and thus removed fromthe tie. The strips 4 and the arrangement of the cushioning block.7 therein beneath the upper side of the casing engaged by the rails, willform a yielding or resilient su port for the .rails which will absorb t e shocks and jars that are occasioned by the from upsetting or' the construction-and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and theminor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is;

-1. A railwaytie comprising a reinforced concrete ihnerf'member, an outer hollow member or casing adapted to be engaged with said inner member, wooden cushioning strips arranged on the upper side of said inner member between the same and the top of the .outer'j'member, resilient cushioning blocks arranged in said strips below the por- 'tion of the outer member engaged by the .ralls, rall fasteningchps secured to the concrete inner member having therein a longitiidinal groove, an outer metal member or casing'adapted to be engaged with said inner memberysmd outer member having in one end and in its upper side longitudinal slots, rail engaging clips secured to the outer side of said casing member and adapted to engage the inner side of one rail and the outer side of the other rail, a rail fastening through the slot in one end of said casing member, rail engaging lugs formed on said bar and having a sl ding engagement with 'the'slots in the top of said casing member,

and nuts arranged on the threaded end of said fasteningbar and adapted to be screwed up thereon to draw the rail fastening lugs of the bar into operative engagement with the opposite sides of the rail flanges from that engaged by said clips whereby the rails are securely fastened to the outer member of the tie and whereby said fastening devices may be disengaged from the rails and the 'latter released.

In testimony whereof I havehereunto set my-hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- GEORGE J. OLA-BK.

passage of the'rolling stock over the rails. 3 Witnesses:

. From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

Gnome J. Sonar, Grouse K. KILLEY.

=-bar arranged in said outer casing member and having a threaded outer end pro ect1ng w copies of this patent may be obtained {or five cum each, by manning the Oommluioner o! Patentn, 

